As someone that wasn't ever particularly active on Reddit, I didn't even know that was a general attitude there. I've generally never understood the hate that some people have for emojis, though. They have their place in certain circumstances and can make communication easier in general sometimes, especially in private, more personal conversations. Tone can be so hard to decipher through text.

[–] sab@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think this might actually be more general than just a Reddit thing. When emojis were relatively new you had a couple of cohorts of kids and some middle aged people who went apeshit (or 🐒💩, as these people could genuinely write) about it, often combining series of them with no ironical distance. This was considered annoying by the rest of society at the time, but when you're past 20 you can't really comment on what the kids are up to.

Then the kids themselves started taking an anti-emoji stance, perhaps after their teachers started using them. Minimalist use is still fine, but excessive use has always been kind of annoying, and is just not a good idea if you want to get your point across in a forum with a broad audience.

[–] kill@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

time to rev up dat emojiverse lemmy instance, emojemmy? 🐭

[–] eels@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You had lemmoji right there and went for emojemmy? 🤓

[–] kill@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

lemmojemmy, double the lemmy for free 😎

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